NEWS OF THE DAY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5574, 20 September 1889, Page 3

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The following is ono of the numerous telegrams sent to the Auckland footballers: — "Come home and die. Arranged for two hearses, meet team on Sunday. Rank disgust everywhere." The Dunedin City Council received an oft'er from the Gulcher Electric Co. through tlieir Wellington agent, for the lighting of the city by electricity. The Christchurch Press learns that a private cable message has been received in thafc city from London stating that arrangements are being made for great extensions of tonnage for frozen meat, equal to all fche demands for next year. The Press was also informed that the gentlemen who control the shipping interests in New Zealand had represented that six new cargo boats would be needed to meet the requirements of the trade of New Zealand next season. The Otago Daily Times says : — The wreck of the Tararua at Waipapa Point in 1881 will still be fresh in the midst of the public. She had onboard a consider-

able number of silver coins withdrawn from circulation, owing to their lightness or defacement. They were shipped afc Auckland. Their value has been variously estimated. Some say they were worth £.1000, other say they would bring £20,000 after re-issue from the mint. But it is believed a correct estimate of their value is 17000. Some time after the wreck (says the Mataura Ensign) and afc fche instigation of the Insurance Companies, a party with an experienced diver visited the spot and endeavored to become possessed of the coins, but without success, for they found out that the strong-room in whicli they were contained was inaccessible, and thero were other almost unsurmountable objects in the way. The £7000 had almost been forgotten until last week, when Mr William Batson, an experienced diver, arrived at Fortrose with half-a-dozen men determined to probe the bottom, and on Sunday the party proceeded in the Kakanui to the scene ofthe wreck, where they are prepared to remain in camp until the weather admits of an exhaustive examination of fche wreck, which lies only a few dozen yards from fche shore. Afc first (lie kelp will require to be cut away, and if a minute examination shows that the strongroom cannot easily be penetrated, the whole wreck will be blown up by dynamite, a plentiful supply of which was taken down by the Kakanui.